Bright Eyes
Album : Fevers & Mirrors
SONG - A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace
Tablature by Matt - 03/19/01
Am7 - X02010
Am7/F# - 202010
G - 320033
C - X30210
F# - 224432
B7 - X21201
E - 022100
D7 - XX0212
D7sus4 - XX0213
Am7Am7/F#
You turn on a spindle
G
You are so much looser now
C
But you're not explaining how
F#B7E
You gained such new repose
Am7Am7/F#
I touch the clasp of your locket
G
With its picture held
C
Some secret you wouldn't tell
F#B7E
But let it choke your neck
Am7Am7/F#
So we imagine a darkness
G
Where all shapes divide
C
Solids changing into light
F#B7E
With a burst of heat so bright
E
Well fine
Am7Am7/F#GC
Don't you do what I want you to
Am7Am7/F#GC
Yeah, don't degrade yourself the way that I do
Am7Am7/F#GC
'Cause you don't depend upon all the shit that I use
AmCD7D7sus4G
To make my moods immmmmmprove
Am7Am7/F#
And near a sea of pianos
G
There were waves of chords
C
That crashed against the shore
F#B7E
In one huge and pointless roar
Am7Am7/F#
And there were girls bringing water
G
Like a dream they came
C
To cool the fever of my brain
F#B7E
And soothe my burning throat
Am7Am7/F#
And they made me a necklace
G
Hanging beads of sweat
C
On a string of my regrets
F#B7E
And placed it 'round my neck
E
And they were singing
Am7Am7/F#GC
Don't you do what you've wanted to
Am7Am7/F#GC
Yeah, don't destroy yourself like those cowards do
Am7Am7/F#GC
And maybe the sun keeps coming up 'cause it's gotten used to you
AmCD7D7sus4G
And your constant need forrrr proof
SONG - A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks
Tablature by B.E. as interpreted by the pantieraider
CEmAmFG
---3--0----0---1--3---
---1--0----1---1--3---
---0--0----2---2--0---
---2--2----2---3--0---
---3--2----0---3--2---
------0--------1--3---
C
Here is a scale, weigh it out and you will find easily
Em
More than sufficient doubt that these colors you see
Am
Were picked in advance by some careful hand
FG
With an absolute concept of beauty
C
They are smeared and these blurs come in random order
Em
To color the eyes of your former lovers
AmF
Hers were green like July except when she cried
FG
They were red
C
Now I know a disease that these doctors can't treat
Em
You contract it the day you accept all you see
Am
Is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be
FG
A reflection of something we're missing
C
And language just happened, it was never planned
Em
And it's inadequate to describe where I am
Am
In the room of my house where the light has never been
FG
Waiting for this day to end
FG
And these clocks keep unwinding and completely ignore
EmAm
Everything that we hate or adore
FG
Once the page of a calendar is turned it's no more
EmAm
So tell me then, what was it for?
FGC
Oh tell me, what was it for?
- The Calendar Hung Itself
Tablature by B.E. - frantic latin rock interpreted by pantie
F#mC#BmEAD
--2---4---2---0---0---2---
--2---6---3---0---2---3---
--2---6---4---1---2---2---
--4---6---4---2---2---0---
--4---4---2---2---0-------
--2-----------0-----------
F#m
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
C#
And does he sing to you incessantly
from the place between your bed and wall?
F#m
Does he walk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
C#
Looking down every few steps
to pretend he walks with you?
F#m
Does he know that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
C#
And does he cry through broken sentences
like "I love you far too much"?
BmEAD
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
BmEAD
Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?
EF#m
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
EF#m
For every speck of tile there are a thousand more
E
That you won't ever see
AEDEF#mC#F#C#
But must hold inside yourself eternally
F#m
I drug your ghost across the country
and we plotted out my death
C#
In every city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest"
F#m
I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
C#
And I settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
F#m
"You are my sunshine,
C#
My only sunshine.
F#m
You are my sunshine
C#
My only sunshine"
BmEADBmEADEF#EF#EAEDEF#m
I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
C#
She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
F#m
And in a story told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
C#
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
F#m
And it rose like thunder
C#
Clapped under our hands
F#m
And it stretched for centuries
C#
To a diary entry's end where I wrote
F#m
"You make me happy (WHAT?)
C#
When the skies are gray
F#m
You make me happy (WHAT?)
C#
When skies are gray and gray and gray"
BmEAD
Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest
BmEAD
With hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself
EF#m
But I will not weep for those dying days
EF#m
For all the ones who've left there are a few that stayed
EAED
And they found me here and pulled me from the grass
EF#mEF#mE...
Where I was laid
SONG - Something Vague
Tablature by Clark Vogeler (clark@thisonegoestoeleven.com)
intro and main progression:
E ----1----------0-------------3-------------0
B ----1--1h3p1---1----1h3p1----0----0h3p0----1
G ----2----------0-------------0-------------2
D -3-------------2-------------0-------------2
A ------------3----------------2----------0---
E --------------------------3-----------------
E ----1----------0-------------3---------3----
B ----1--1h3p1---1----1h3p1----0---------0----
G ----2----------0-------------0---------0----
D -3-------------2-------------0---------0----
A ------------3----------------2---------2----
E --------------------------3--------3-3------
FCGAm
Now and again it seems worse than it is
FCG
But mostly the view is accurate.
FCGAm
You see your breath in the air as you climb up the stairs
FCG
to that coffin you call your apartment.
AmE
And you sink in your chair
CG
Brush the snow from your hair
CGF
And drink the cold away
AmE
You are not really sure
CF
What you're doing this for
CGF
But you need something to fill up the days
AmE
A few more hours
CGAmCGAmFCGAm
There is a dream in my brain that just won't go away
FCG
It's been stuck there since it came a few nights ago
FCGAm
And I'm standing on a bridge in the town where I lived
FCG
As a kid with my mom and my brothers
AmE
And then the bridge disappears
CG
And I'm standing on air
CGF
With nothing holding me
AmE
And I hang like a star
CG
Fucking glow in the dark
CGF
For all those starving eyes to see
AmE
Like the ones we've wished on
CG
But now I'm confused
AmF
Is this death really you?
CGAm
And do these dreams have any meaning?
CG
No, no, I think it is more like a ghost
AmF
That's been following us both
CGAm
Something vague that we're not seein
FCD
Something more like a feeling
FGC
SONG - The Movement Of A Hand
Tablature by Matt - 03/19/01
F# - 244322
A - X02220
E - 022100
D - XX0232
F#AEF#F#A
You follow the footsteps
EA
Echoes leading down a hall
F#A
To a room, there's music playing
EA
Tiny bells with moving parts
F#A
Here the shadows make things ugly
EA
An effect quite undesirable
F#A
The bold and yellow daylight
EA
Grows like ivy across the wall
DEA
And bounces off of the painted porcelain
DEA
Tiny dancing doll
DEA
Her body spins as she pirouettes again
DEF#AEA
The world suddenly seems small
F#A
On an off-white subtle morning
EA
You stretch your legs in the front seat
F#A
The road has made a vacuum
EA
Where our voices used to be
F#A
And you lay your head onto my shoulder
EA
Pour like water over me
DEA
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this
DEA
Drive that would be fine
DEA
And all the trees that line this curb would be
DEF#AEA
Rejoicing and alive
DEA
Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes
DEA
Fountains of your eyes
DEA
Because you finally understand the movement of a
DEF#AEA
Hand waving you goodbye
F#AEA
SONG - Arienette
Tablature by Laura Sharp C#mG#EF#mC#BA
E ---4-----4-----7-----2-----9-----7----5---
B ---5-----4-----9-----2-----9-----7----5---
G ---6-----5-----9-----2-----10----8----6---
D ---6-----6-----9-----4-----11----9----7---
A ---4-----6-----7-----4-----11----9----7---
E ---x-----4-----x-----2-----9-----7----5---
C#m
The fragile keep secrets gathered in pockets
G#
And they will sell them for nothing, a cheap watch or locket
EC#m
That kind of gold washes off
C#m
And the sad act like lepers, they stick to the shadows
G#
They long to ring bells of warning to tell of their coming
EC#m
So that the pure can shut their doors
C#m
And the angry are animals, senseless and savage
G#
They act without order in logical lapses
EC#m
They stain their mouths with blood
F#mC#m
So take my hand, this barren land is alive tonight
F#mC#m
Oh, the corn has grown stalks that form a wall to hide
F#mC#m
The wind carries sounds that I can't see from beyond that line
BAG#
Then the stalks begin to sway
C#BAG#
Oh, stay with me, Arienette
C#m
Until the wolves are away
AG#C#mAG#
YUP
C#m
Well the wicked are vultures, they bake in the canyons
G#
They circle in sunlight and wait for their victims
EC#m
To collapse and call to them
C#m
And the desperate are water, they'll run down forever
G#
As they soak into silence and end up together
EC#m
In a dark and distant, dark and distant place
F#mC#m
So don't leave me here with only mirrors watching me
F#mC#m
This house, it holds nothing but the memories
F#mC#m
And the moon, it leaves silver but never sleep
BAG#
And then the silver turns to gray
C#BAG#
So stay with me, Arienette
C#m
Until the wolves are away
SONG - When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
Tablature by Matt - 03/19/01
C - x30210
G - 320033
Dm - XX0231
Am - X02210
CGDmGCGAmAmGGCG
Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother
DmG
And making him take me back down to the water
CG
That lake where we sailed and we laughed with our father
AmAmG
I will not desert him, I will not desert him
DmGCAm
No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean
DmGCAm
Or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me
DmGCAm
I put my face in the dirt and then finally I see
CGC
The sky that has been avoiding me
CG
I started this letter, I'm gonna send it to Ruba
DmG
It will be blessed by her eyes on the gulf coast of Florida
CG
With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit
AmG
She will recite the prayer of my pen
CG
Saying, time take us forward, relief from this longing
DmG
They can land that plane on my heart. I don't care
CG
Just give me November, the warmth of a whisper
AmG
In the freezing darkness of my room
DmGCAm
But no matter what I would do in an attempt to replace
DmGCAm
All these pills that I take trying to balance my brain
DmGCAm
Seen the curious girl with that look on her face
CGC
So surprised she stares out from her display case
SONG - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Tablature by Matt - 03/19/01
F#m - XX4222
Dmaj7 - XX0222
A - X02220
Bm - X24432
G - 320033
F#mDmaj7ABmF#mDmaj7ABmF#mDmaj7ABm
The phone slips from a loose grip
F#mDmaj7ABm
Words were missed, then some apology
F#mDmaj7
I didn't want to tell you this
ABmF#m
No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with
Dmaj7ABm
I don't know, the past couple weeks, I guess
F#mDmaj7
Thank you and hang up the phone
ABm
Let the funeral start, hear the casket close
F#mDmaj7ABm
Let's pin split-black ribbon to your overcoat
F#mDmaj7A
The laughter pours from under doors in this house
BmF#m
I don't understand that sound no more
Dmaj7ABm
Seems artificial like a TV set
Bm
Well Haligh Haligh Haligh Haligh
A
This weight, it must be satisfied
G
You offer only one reply
A
You know not what you do
Bm
But you tear and tear your hair from roots
A
From that same head you have twice removed
G
Now a lock of hair you said would prove
A
Our love would never die, well hahaha
BmF#mDmaj7
I remember everything
ABm
The words we spoke on freezing South Street
F#mDmaj7ABm
And all those mornings watching you get ready for school
F#mDmaj7
You combed your hair inside that mirror
ABm
The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears
F#mDmaj7ABm
Something about those bright colors would always make you feel better
F#mDmaj7
But now we speak with ruined tongues
ABm
And the words we say aren't meant for anyone
F#mDmaj7ABm
It's just a mumbled sentence to a passing acquaintance but there was once you
F#mDmaj7
You said you hate my suffering
ABm
And you understood and you'd take care of me
F#mDmaj7ABm
You'd would always be there, well where are you now?
Bm
Haligh, Haligh, Haligh, Haligh
A
The plans were never finalized
G
But left to hang like yarn and twine
A
Dangling before my eyes
Bm
As you tear and tear your hair from roots
A
From that same head that you have twice removed
G
Now a lock of hair you said would prove
A
Our love would never die
Bm
And I sing and sing of awful things
A
The pleasure that my sadness brings
G
And my fingers press onto the strings
A
Yet another clumsy chord
Bm
Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie
A
This weight will now be satisfied
G
I'm gonna give you only one reply
A
I know not who I am
Bm
But I talk in the mirror
A
To the stranger that appears
G
Our conversations are circles
G
Always one sided
A
Nothing is clear
Bm
Except we keep coming back
A
To this meaning that I lack
G
He says the choices were given
G
Now you must live them
A
Or just not live
Bm
But do you want that?
SONG - The Center Of The World
Tablature by Laura Sharp GBmAmCDEm OR EmB
E ---3----2----5----3----5----7------0----2---
B ---3----3----5----5----7----8------0----4---
G ---4----4----5----5----7----9------0----4---
D ---5----4----7----5----7----9------2----4---
A ---5----2----7----3----5----7------2----2---
E ---3----x----5----x----x----x------0----x---
GBmAm
At the center of the world there's a statue of a girl
CDG
She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry
BmAm
I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand
CDG
This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand
BmAm
It came to rest upon a beach with a million others there
CDG
We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear
BmAm
Into the endlessness of blue into the horror of the truth
CDEm
See, we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew
EmC
But we knew what we could taste
Em
Girls found honey to drench our hands
B
The men cut marble to mark our graves
BG
Said we'll need something to remind us of
B
All the sweetness that has passed through us
Em
The priests dressed children for a choir
B
But found no joy in what was sung
BCDDG
The funeral had begun
GBmAm
In the middle of the day when you drive home to your place
CDG
From that job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake
BmAm
Long after night has come to claim any light that still remains
CDG
In the corner of the frame that you put around her face
Bm
Two pills just weren't enough
Am
The alarm clock's going off but you're not waking up
CD
This isnt happening happening happening happening happening
G
It is
SONG - Sunrise, Sunset
Tablature by Matt - 03/19/01
Am - XX7555
G#? - XX6555
E - 022100
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#? AmG#?
Swiftly go the days
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#?
You wake up, then you undress
AmG#? AmG#?
It always is the same
AmG#?
A sunrise and the sun sets
AmG#?
You are lying while you confess
AmG#? AmG#?
Keep trying to explain
AmG#?
A sunrise and the sun sets
AmG#?
You realize, then you forget
AmG#? AmG#?
What you have been trying to retain
E
But everybody knows
E
It's all about the things
EEAmG#? AmG#?
That get stuck inside of your head
E
Like the songs your roommate sings
E
Or a vision of her body
EAm
As she stretches out on your bed
G#? AmG#?
And she raised her hands in the air
AmG#? AmG#?
Asked you, when was the last time you looked in the mirror?
AmG#? AmG#?
'Cause you have changed
AmG#? AmG#?
Yeah, you've changed
AmG#?
Sunrise, the sun sets
AmG#?
You are hopeful and then you regret
AmG#? AmG#?
The circle never breaks
AmG#?
With a sunrise and sunset
AmG#?
There's a change of heart or address
AmG#? AmG#?
Is there nothing that remains?
AmG#?
For a sunrise or a sunset
AmG#?
You're manic or you're depressed
AmG#? AmG#?
Will you ever feel okay?
AmG#?
For a sunrise or a sunset
AmG#?
Your lover is an actress
AmG#? AmG#?
Did you really think she'd stay?
AmG#?
For a sunrise or a sunset
AmG#?
You're either coming or you just left
AmG#? AmG#?
But you're always on the way
AmG#?
Towards a sunrise or a sunset
AmG#?
A scribble or a sonnet
AmG#?
They are really just the same
AmG#?
To the sunrise or a sunset
AmG#?
The master and his servant
AmG#? AmG#?
Have exactly the same fate
AmG#?
It's a sunrise and a sunset
AmG#?
From a cradle to a casket
AmG#? AmG#?
There is no way to escape
AmG#?
The sunrise and the sunset
AmG#?
Hold your sadness like a puppet
AmG#? AmG#?
Keep putting on the play
E
But everything you do
E
Is leading to the point
EAmG#? AmG#?
Where you just won't know what to do
E
And at that moment you may laugh
E
But there is someone there
EAm
Who will be laughing louder than you
G#?
So it's true
AmG#?
The trick is complete
AmG#? AmG#?
You've become everything you said you never would be
AmG#? AmG#?
You're a fool
AmG#? AmG#?
You're a fool
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#? AmG#?
The sunrise and the sun sets
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#?
Sunrise, the sun sets
AmG#? AmG#?
The sunrise, the sun sets
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#?
Go home to your apartment
AmG#? AmG#?
Put the cassette in the tape deck
AmG#? AmG#? AmG#? AmG#?
And let that fever play
AmG#?
Sunrise, sunset
AmG#?
Where are you Arienette?
AmG#?
AmG#?
AmG#?
AmG#?
AmG#?
Where are you Arienette?
SONG - An Attempt To Tip The Scales
Tablature by Clark Vogeler - 03/19/01
intro: DF#mGADF#mGA
Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?
DF#mGA
Like the sun is just gonna drop if it's night you demand?
DF#mGA
Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve
DF#mGA
Once we're gone, who's gonna care if we were ever here at all?
GAF#m
Well, summer's gonna come, it's gonna cloud our eyes again
GA
No need to focus when there's nothing that's worth seeing
DF#mGA
So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales
DF#mGA
I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details
F#mG
They seemed so important at the time but now you can't even recall
F#mGA
Any of the names, faces, or lines, it's more the feeling of it all
GA
Well, winter's gonna end, it's gonna clean these veins again
F#mGA
So close to dying that I finally can start living
DF#mGA (repeat) end on F#m
SONG - A Song To Pass The Time
Tablature by Matt - 03/19/01
E - 022100
F#m - XX4222
G#m - xx6444
A - X02220
B - X24442
Start with fingerpicking E
EF#m
There is a middle-aged woman, she's dragging her feet
G#mF#m
She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat
EF#m
While the Mexican children kick rocks into the street
G#mF#m
And they laugh in a language I don't understand
AE
But I love them... why do I love them?
EF#m
So the neighborhood's dimming, I smoke on the porch
G#mF#m
Watch the people as they pass enclosed inside their cars
EF#m
And on their faces just anger or disappointment
G#mF#m
I start wishing there was something I could offer them
AE
A consolation... what could I offer them?
EF#m
And they are sad in their suburbs, robots water the lawn
G#mF#m
And everything they touch gets dusted spotless
EF#m
And so they start to believe they've not touched anything at all
G#mF#m
And the cars in the driveway only multiply
EF#m
They are lost in their houses, I've heard them sing in the shower
G#mF#m
Making speeches to their sister on the telephone
EF#m
Saying you come home, you come here, don't stay so far away from me
G#mF#m
This weather has me wanting love more tangible
AE
Something I can hold... it's getting cold
F#mEBA
I say hold up our fists to a flame in the sky
F#mEBA
To block out the light that's reaching for our eyes
EAE
'Cause it... 'cause it would blind us, yeah it will blind us
EF#m
Well I've locked my actions in the grooves of routine
G#mF#m
So I may never be free of this apathy
EF#m
But I wait for a letter that's coming to me
G#mF#m
She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope
E
So there still is hope, yes, I can be healed
F#m
There is someone looking for what I've concealed
G#m
In my secret drawer, in my pockets deep
F#m
You will find the reasons that I can't sleep
AE
And you will still want me... but will you still want me?
AE
Will you still want me?
F#mEBA
Well, I say come for the week, you can sleep in my bed
F#mEBA
And pass through my life like a dream through my head
EAE
It will... it will be easy, I'll make it easy
EF#m
But all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time
G#mF#m
A melody to keep me from worrying
EF#m
Some simple progression to keep my fingers busy
G#mF#m
And words that are sure to come back to me
AE
And they'll be laughing... and they'll be laughing
AE
My mediocrity
AE
My mediocrity
AEAE...